Alexander Moore Quotes
Characters : -
Alexander (Alex, alec)
Alicia (Alex’s Mum)
Frederick (Alex’s Dad)
Jerry
Setting: - Early 20th Century Ireland, WW1 in France (Two settings)
Summary – Part 1 * The story starts with the narrator Alexander Moore who is awaiting his death by a firing squad. * We get an indication early on in the text that the relationship with his parents is not good. * ‘My heart doesn’t bleed for her’ referring to his mother. This shows us that he did not have much love for his mother. * ‘As a child I was alone’. This indicates the incredible loneliness felt by Alex as a child. * ‘Their only meeting place was the child’. This refers to the unhappy marriage of Alicia and Frederick. * Alicia tries constantly to control …show more content…
* Jerry visits Alex is his bunk. They talk about the impending war at home in Ireland. Jerry thinks the war in Ireland will be easier as there will be no trench warfare and no front lines and no waiting. * Quotes that show the horror of war:
‘I lay down and closed my eyes. The screaming, I think, continued, or maybe it was inside my head.’
‘One of the stretches of the wall that had collapsed had left raw to the world the remains of what had been a dozen or so French men. We packed them neatly away behind more sandbags and hoped that they wouldn’t appear in our lives again’. This shows the reality of trench warfare. * Things go from bad to worse in this novel. It is a novel of social realism. It is a fictional novel but none of the things that happen are beyond the realms of possibility. * Glenndinning, Alex and a few soldiers take a trip to find a man who has been badly wounded in the war. They could hear his screaming from far away. When they reached the man Alex could tell he was badly wounded referring to ‘what was left of the man’. * Major Glendinning shows himself to be a compassionate man. He risks his life to stop another man’s
Alexander (Alex, alec)
Alicia (Alex’s Mum)
Frederick (Alex’s Dad)
Jerry
Setting: - Early 20th Century Ireland, WW1 in France (Two settings)
Summary – Part 1 * The story starts with the narrator Alexander Moore who is awaiting his death by a firing squad. * We get an indication early on in the text that the relationship with his parents is not good. * ‘My heart doesn’t bleed for her’ referring to his mother. This shows us that he did not have much love for his mother. * ‘As a child I was alone’. This indicates the incredible loneliness felt by Alex as a child. * ‘Their only meeting place was the child’. This refers to the unhappy marriage of Alicia and Frederick. * Alicia tries constantly to control …show more content…
* Jerry visits Alex is his bunk. They talk about the impending war at home in Ireland. Jerry thinks the war in Ireland will be easier as there will be no trench warfare and no front lines and no waiting. * Quotes that show the horror of war:
‘I lay down and closed my eyes. The screaming, I think, continued, or maybe it was inside my head.’
‘One of the stretches of the wall that had collapsed had left raw to the world the remains of what had been a dozen or so French men. We packed them neatly away behind more sandbags and hoped that they wouldn’t appear in our lives again’. This shows the reality of trench warfare. * Things go from bad to worse in this novel. It is a novel of social realism. It is a fictional novel but none of the things that happen are beyond the realms of possibility. * Glenndinning, Alex and a few soldiers take a trip to find a man who has been badly wounded in the war. They could hear his screaming from far away. When they reached the man Alex could tell he was badly wounded referring to ‘what was left of the man’. * Major Glendinning shows himself to be a compassionate man. He risks his life to stop another man’s